Tag: Democracy
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PIPP: Democracy & Governance
Mechanistic institutional definitions of a democracy are based on the electoral systems and the powers it hands to officials. There are also soft definitions of democracy that focus on citizens’ rights to form interest groups (pressure groups, political parties, etc.) and judicial protection of citizens. The quality of a democracy can be rated based on…
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No More To Say #10
English: This time it is an English Session: The Caliphate as an ultimate goal?(Economist) Islam and Democracy as seen by the Economist. The perfect lie detector(NewScientist) Is there a brain pattern to lying that can be detected eventually? The World… (flicker) … as perceived by Switzerland if an portion of irony. The London uprisings and…